Nancy Stebbins coordinates the guest editors for SmokeLong Weekly. She earned her MFA from Pacific University. Her stories have been or will soon be published in Indiana Review,CutBank,St. Ann’s Review, and The Los Angeles Review. She lives in College Station, Texas, where she works as a psychiatrist.

Nancy’s favorite flashes feel like puzzles that have been put back together slightly off kilter. Not strange for the sake of strangeness, they deliver something powerful, something beyond the whole. Like this: